So, I hear that you are the Philharmonic guy and i haven't had/heard any of your speakers yet. But, do you hear yourself? If a guy put "12 coats of clear" and made a pretty li'l box, i repeat,
a freaking box, the price goes up to the equivalent of a car!!?? I suppose you know what goes into engineering a car. Does a box with a couple of drivers compare (even remotely)? If that's your stance, I guess you've got enough of a client base that doesn't understanding anything about value or economics. Last i heard, Wilson puts a couple of hundred dollar drivers from Focal into their flagship which retails for over 135k. I guess the Wilson snake oil peddler can't even engineer a driver of his own.
I'll tell you what i did recently. I just put together a DIY "open baffle" speaker kit and flatpacks from a fairly knowledgeable speaker designer for about 3000 bucks. He isn't all that popular around here because he seems to swear by a couple of cables he sells. But, i seem to like him when i think about the great sound and immense cost savings he granted me recently....Hmmmm, no thanks, you guys keep churning out the fancy boxes with whatever voodoo you worked to keep the "cabinet resonances" at bay (which isn't much at all from the looks of it) and to make it look all pretty. I'll just keep mine open baffle for now. I may add "12 coats of clear" later on in my garage/shop, lol, though it looks really pretty without it too. I guess i could even sell it to an audiophool for the price of a car then? Eitherway, sonically, i know what i've got.
Good luck to you and Paul McGowan.